Amorphous ginger blob

[Jimmy]

When tidying out a cupboard I came across the Gingerbread Man cutter from when the kids were young.

Fancied some!

So I followed the recipe at

https://www.bbc.com/food/recipes/gingerbread_men_99096

I put 10 nice Gingerbread Men into the oven.
15 minutes later a huge amorphous ginger blob came out.

It seems they all melted together, you could just make out their outline.
A bit of deft work with a knife and they reappeared, although a bit worse for wear.


I guess I should have spaced them a bit more.

And this dammed English language has me going again.
Worse for wear, is it where , were or wear ???
Think it's wear but that's for cloths !

Jimmy

[Small pumpkin]

And this dammed English language has me going again.
Worse for wear, is it where , were or wear ???
Think it's wear but that's for cloths !

Jimmy

Don't ask me I'm dyslexic they are all right to me.

More importantly did your amorphous ginger blob taste nice ?

[nickdub]

"Worse for wear, is it where , were or wear ???
Think it's wear but that's for cloths !"

"Worse for wear", as you mention like in worn clothes etc - the idea being that through usage some thing could be degraded so that it was not so good as when new - the phrase then became a circumlocution for someone who was a drunk - plenty of other expressions to cover a drunken person eg "3 sheets to the wind" and "pie-eyed " come to mind as colorful ones :-)

My wife who is Lithuanian reckons that we English have made our language deliberately confusing just so that foreigners find it hard to get to grips with it - my explanation, a bit more prosaic, is that the English being a hodge-podge of peoples and languages roughly melded together, also like magpies bringing shiny new words from other places, have constructed a melange of words with which to express ourselves.

[jonahjonah]

I find shaped cookies harder to make here. Chilling the dough - sometimes even after cutting out the shapes, sometimes for longer than recipe states - helps. Though, as SP says, it's all in the taste. Hope they were delicious

[Bren In Pots]

More importantly did your amorphous ginger blob taste nice ?

Another important question did you bite of the legs or head first

[Jimmy]

Well due to my deft knife work some had no heads others missing legs or arms.
Generally, like jelly babies, I bite the heads off first, seems more humane.
And they were/where/wear (choose applicable) delicious.
But didn't bother icing them as they looked a bit raggy.

Jimmy

[lottie dolly]

Looked at the headline a few times.all i keep seeing is,amorous ginger blob,this had me wondering what you had got there,like when letters are in a different order,and still read it,please tell me i am not alone,or have i had to much sun,any how,after reading the post,you made a gallant effort all round there,but what was the taste,and don't say ginger,was the blobs till edable,just thought,you could have blobed icing here and there,your very own MR blobby's

[Jimmy]

Well I did check before I used it
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/amorphous
Where as
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/amorous
would suggest something rather strange.
Had they been an Amorous ginger blob I think I would have had to put them down on the spot.

As for the taste, as I can't use the word ginger I will tell you in German, "Ingwer"

Jimmy

[SarrissUK]

haha I read it as amorous too! LOL